Health & Wellness - Medicalized Nativism

By John McKiernan-Gonzalez
John McKiernan-GonzalezPublished: Sept. 9, 2009

I have spent every Tuesday night for the last five weeks in childbirth class. Like many of my male classmates, I dreaded having to ask anxious questions about the physical experience of pregnancy. On our last night, the guest pediatrician also fielded questions about vaccinations. This welcomed change of subject opened a flood of questions …